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I'm wondering how many of the "restrained" children were really not. I
see so many families with car seats installed improperly, with the 5 pt
harness installed too loosely or improperly, where the child is in much
more risk of dying in a crash simply because of the way the car seat or
belt is on the child...I suppose it would be difficult to figure out
after a crash if the seat was installed correctly, and if the child was
in the seat correctly, but it would make those statistics more accurate.
Although I guess the statistics in question below serve the cause of
"not breastfeeding is more dangerous than not using a car seat."
Joylyn
Margaret G. Bickmore wrote:
>> Wondering, maybe with someone with more time than I could compare the
>> risk of an unrestrained child vs the risk of formula?
>> Joylyn
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>
> I just did this last month on an LLL email list. The Chen and Rogan
> study from Pediatrics (2004) estimates 720 deaths per year between 28
> days and 1 year of age in the US.
> http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/113/5/e435
>
> I was not able to find car seat usage data specific to the 0-1 year
> age group. According to the National Highway Transportation and
> Safety Administration (NHTSA), 751 children aged 0-7 years died in
> motor vehicle crashes in 2004. Of these, 311 were not restrained (ie
> potentially preventable by appropriate car seat use) and 440 were.
> http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/RNotes/2006/810595.pdf
>
> Another report using five years of data from 1998-2002 breaks out
> children 0-3 years old:
> http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/Rpts/2005/809784.pdf
> This report's numbers work out to about 400 fatalities per year in
> this age group (153 unrestrained and 246 restrained).
>
> In order to compare apples to apples, we really need to know how many
> of those motor vehicle deaths were in babies under 1 year old, and the
> NHTSA statistics are not presented that way. But it's probably a safe
> guess that fewer than 150 deaths per year are infants. And probably
> 50 or fewer of the *unrestrained* (potentially preventable) deaths are
> infants.
>
> It seems clear from this data that *many* more babies die in the US
> each year from not being breastfed than from improper car seat use.
>
> Margaret
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